gregory
I think it's more to attract people in general. Sadly people don't like reading books without lots of pictures any more - this seems to tie into the proliferation of graphic "novels" (which to me are glorified comic books). I've SEEN people pick up books in bookstores and say "oh, but there aren't any pictures". And that for a NOVEL. Non-fiction even more so.
A regrettable part of the dumbing down of the education systems in the first world, even while those in the third world are thirsting for learning and value it - pictures or not. See also all the research on how attention spans are falling all the time, which is why kids' TV programmes are increasingly in tiny sound bites.
ETA which one - it looks like the 1789 restored:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=2683172&postcount=43
or the 1910 Grimaud - the colours are more like that: http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks03/d01612/d01612.htm
A regrettable part of the dumbing down of the education systems in the first world, even while those in the third world are thirsting for learning and value it - pictures or not. See also all the research on how attention spans are falling all the time, which is why kids' TV programmes are increasingly in tiny sound bites.
ETA which one - it looks like the 1789 restored:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=2683172&postcount=43
or the 1910 Grimaud - the colours are more like that: http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks03/d01612/d01612.htm